re: Sign perkins but let Jimmer walk....

Not that im pumped up about the perkins signing, but jimmer was awful. Did you watch any games last season? He literally was brought in for late free throws....thats it. Im more pissed we didnt take a chance on seth curry. I mean for a million per year, i think it would have been worth a shot, but hey im not a gm.

Jimmer wasn't horrible the coach was biased against him. He is a very good player. Monte had too many family ties and wasn't going to let him play.

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He is a very good player

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Back that statement up with facts from his NBA career.

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He is a very good player.

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Monte had too many family ties and wasn't going to let him play.

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But when he shoots 3s at a normal percentage this year it will be pretty hard to say it wasn't playing for Monty/in Monty's system that dragged him down.

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You really want to blame Monty for the guy not hitting wide open shots?

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Because we all know that Plenty = All

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Name the players who struggled under Monty that found sustained success anywhere else? Aminu was in a more favorable role in Dallas based on roster moreso than coaching. Who else?

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Aminu was in a more favorable role in Dallas based on roster moreso than coaching.

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Given his limitations, Monty certainly could have been smarter in deploying Aminu regardless of the roster. And the roster was flexible enough to avoid unholy trinity lineups.

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You really want to blame Monty for the guy not hitting wide open shots?

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I want to blame looking over his shoulder for the quick hook. It's a common trait amongst many coaches. One of the positives about Gentry is he supposedly doesn't do that as illustrated by the development of Dragic. How much data besides player anecdotes supports the theory, I don't know, but unless you want to argue that Jimmer wasn't looking over his shoulder, I think it's safe to say he was in a situation that most players describe as less than optimal for their game.

I'm not calling for Monty to have played Jimmer more, in fact I already said he shouldn't have, but that doesn't mean Monty making the calls he needed to make didn't hurt Jimmer's confidence and shooting.

The Spurs aren't perfect (Stephen Jackson comes to mind), but they're pretty good at picking role players that will fit in a way that maximizes their skill set. Maybe it's resting the star players allows the bench guys to know they'll get opportunities, maybe it's just that Pop is so much better than most coaches in the league (like I said, most coaches do what Monty has done), but I fully expect Jimmer to rebound because the Spurs are good at maximizing bench role players and the Monty Hornicans were good at asking bench role players to sink or swim in roles bigger than their skill sets. Some sank, like Rivers and Jimmer, some swam like Jason Smith and Empty Stats Vasquez, and others just tread water like Aminu.

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Empty Stats Vasquez

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But the Mavs had a good roster last year?

Monty chose to play him minutes as a wing regularly. Monty chose not to use him as a small ball 4 regularly. Other roster pieces are irrelevant. Aminu was clearly not up to the task of playing the role Monty wanted for him, yet they kept rolling it out there. That's bad coaching.

That's not quite right. Babbitt was on the team after Anderson went down. They could have slotted him in to a bench role and paired him with Aminu, who was in and out of the dog house. That pairing, while not good, at least makes sense.

Once Anderson and Holiday were injured, that season was about development. Why not try some shite and see what sticks?